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Kandinsky also developed a theory of geometric figures and their relationships, claiming (for example) that the circle is the most peaceful shape and represents the human soul. [ failed verification ] These theories are explained in Point and Line to Plane .
Color Study – Squares with Concentric Circles label QS:Len,"Color Study – Squares with Concentric Circles" label QS:Lfr,"Étude De Couleurs – Carrés avec Cercles Concentriques"
Unusually for Kandinsky, who attached spiritual importance to color and geometric forms, the predominant color of the painting is black, which for him evoked the closure and end of things. On the black background float various geometric shapes, whose meaning is left to the viewer's appreciation.
Kandinsky's preliminary study was his first abstract watercolor. Untitled (Study for Composition VII, Première abstraction), painted in 1913, [2] is one of the first artworks to emerge from the representational tradition of Western European painting entirely, shedding references to well known forms, conventions of material representation and all narrative allusions.
The composition of the painting consists mainly of diagonals. Geometric shapes such as lines, circles, semicircles, triangles, squares, a checkerboard pattern and a black area in the center of the crossing figures, as well as a larger brownish-gray trapezoid, are reminiscent of the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich and his suprematist style, which Kandinsky understood and admired.
The color blue in particular was to have a spiritual significance for the artist, as it did to his German painter friend Marc. The other significance of the work is that it shared its German title ( Der Blaue Reiter ) with the name of the group of progressive artists co-founded by Kandinsky in 1911, which published an almanac and organised ...
Gabriele Münter by Kandinsky, 1903. See also her portrait of him, 1906. [1] This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944). During his life, Kandinsky was associated with the art movements of Der Blaue Reiter, Expressionism and Abstract painting. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of ...
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art is a 2014 children's picture book written by Barb Rosenstock and illustrated by Mary GrandPré. It tells the story of Russian-born abstract artist Vasily Kandinsky , "who is known for his abstract paintings with colorful geometric shapes and bold strokes". [ 1 ]